Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 2 | Do you find that now you need the luxury of having longer in the studio ? |
| 3 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 4 | Later in his article , he pinpoints ‘ the necessity of writing long letters daily ’ to Helen as the beginning of his departure from nature descriptions — initially written as talks to be given to the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel — or his dignified school essays . |
| 5 | During the decline of hand-loom weaving , more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours . |
| 6 | As has been seen with venture capital funds , there may be some evidence of difficulty of raising long term funds for under £200 000 , and a National Investment Bank may indeed fill this gap . |
| 7 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 8 | Monitoring progress towards achieving long term goals |
| 9 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 10 | The Germans have long made a national sport of running long words together to make longer ones ; as have the Irish , eg in place names like Newtonabbey , Maguiresbridge and Patrickswell . |
| 11 | " Once , in the closing years of the last century , a poor woman earned her daily bread by working long hours at her treadle sewing machine . |
| 12 | The greatest difference between gybing long and short boards , though , is in the timing since the short board is travelling faster and is more sensitive to weight movements than a longer board . |
| 13 | This is an excellent product for producing long documents ; books , manuals , reports , etc , where there is a rigid structure . |
| 14 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 15 | Moulding planes are excellent to work with , but the job of producing long lengths of moulding can be very time-consuming . |
| 16 | A good day for travelling long or short distances , but you should take care where finances are concerned . |
| 17 | A good day for travelling long or short distances , but you should take care where finances are concerned . |
| 18 | A good day for travelling long or short distances , but you should take care where finances are concerned . |
| 19 | He seems to have been an influence on Innocent and we are almost surely not far from the mark in imagining long discussions between the three on theology and politics . |
| 20 | The Wilson committee largely concurred with these views , and pointed out the specific problems of small firms in raising long term finance , whether loan or equity . |
| 21 | In remote parts of the world buses are often the only means of covering long distances . |
| 22 | An International Centre for Educational Evaluation has been established in Ibadan and , though currently very understaffed , has made a useful start in mounting long training courses in evaluation and in undertaking evaluation of curriculum projects at the request of their organisers ( among which are the Namutamba and Ife projects described earlier in the chapter ) . |
| 23 | There are subtle differences between gybing long and short boards . |
| 24 | The later ‘ decisions only ’ approach helps to prevent members from making long speeches which they can read in the minutes . |
| 25 | Our success in securing long term contracts during 1992 allowed the company to increase staff training programmes and a new training centre was opened to facilitate these initiatives . |
| 26 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 27 | … evidence from the past has considerable potential for providing longer term perspectives for studies of current physical processes , for understanding the nature and causes of change and , above all , for understanding the magnitude of the impact of human activities on the physical environment . |
| 28 | For example , a group norm for the young men in an engineering workshop could be to follow a fashion of wearing long hair . |
| 29 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 30 | The apples were harvested in autumn by using long poles to shake the branches of the trees , and then reduced to pulp in a cider mill , which might vary from a small hand machine to a large mill driven by horsepower . |